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USA's Kevin Durant, second from right, salutes fans as the rest of the team waves after they defeated Angola in the round of 16 of the World Basketball Championships, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Russia's head coach David Blatt gestures to his players during their World Basketball Championship round of 16 match against New Zealand in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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USA's head coach Mike Krzyzewski gives intructions to his player Tyson Chandler during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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Novica Velickovic, left, from Serbia and Luis Scola, right, from Argentina, during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match in Kayseri, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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US head coach Mike Krzyzewski, center, talks with Rudy Gay, left, and Kevin Durant before their preliminary round of the World Basketball Championship against Tunisia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Brazil's head coach Ruben Magnano gestures during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match against Croatia in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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USA's Stephen Curry drives to the basket as Tunisia's Radhouane Slimane guards during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski, left, talks with Chauncey Billups, center, and Derrick Rose during the preliminary round of the World Basketball Championship, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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USA 's Chauncey Billups drives past Brazil's Tiago Splitter during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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USA's Kevin Durant, right, puts up a shot as Brazil's Marcus Vieira defends during the preliminary round of the World Basketball Championship, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS USA's Kevin Durant drives past Brazil's Marcus Vieira during their World Basketball Championship preliminary round match in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday Aug. 30, 2010.

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USA's Rudy Gay shoots a basket during practice for the World Basketball Championship, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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USA's Chauncey Billups, right, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski applaud during the final of the World Basketball Championship between Turkey and the USA, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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In this photo of Monday Aug. 23, 2010 visitors view a piece at the "1001 Inventions" exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition about innovation in Muslim civilization seeks to highlight what organizers say is an overshadowed period of history, a "Golden Age" in which advances in engineering, medicine and architecture laid groundwork for Western progress from the Renaissance until modern times. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

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Patriarch Bartholomew I (center), the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, conducts a service at the Sumela Monastery in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, on Sunday. Orthodox Christians held a rare service at an ancient monastery in Turkey after the government allowed worship there once a year in a gradual loosening of restrictions on religious expression. (Associated Press)

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A damaged bus with shattered windows and a damaged trunk is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 22, 2010, after a roadside bomb attack. Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb in Istanbul Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 12 on a bus carrying military personnel and their families, the governor said. (AP Photo )

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In this file photo, Brazil's United Nations Ambassador Maria Ribeiro Viotti, left, and Turkey's United Nations Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, are alone to confer inside the United Nations Security Council following a vote to impose sanctions on Iran, New York, Wednesday, June 9, 2010. The two nations were the only members of the council to vote against sanctions, which cited Iran's nuclear buildup. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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**FILE** Palestinians in fishing boats decorated with Turkish and Palestinian flags hold a pro-Turkey demonstration in the sea off the shore of Gaza City on June 3, 2010. Israel on Thursday rejected calls from the United Nations and others for an international investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but left the door open to foreign involvement. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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ONE IN A CROWD: President Obama — with Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Hu Jintao of China and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia — backs global financial restructuring. (Getty Images)